Matthew Petering - Assistant Professor

Education
Ph.D., Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2007
M.S., Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003
B.A., Washington University in Saint Louis, 1999

Research Interests
Operations research; logistics; transportation; ocean and rail container shipping; material handling systems; supply chain management.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

1. "A continuous time model for multiple yard crane scheduling with last minute job arrivals," W. Li, M. Goh, Y. Wu, M.E.H. Petering, R. de Souza, and Y.C. Wu, International Journal of Production Economics, 136 (2012) 332-343.
2. "Decision support for yard capacity, fleet composition, truck substitutability, and scalability issues at seaport container terminals via discrete event simulation," M.E.H. Petering, Transportation Research E, 47 (2011) 85-103.
3. "Development and simulation analysis of real-time, dual-load yard truck control systems for seaport container transshipment terminals," M.E.H. Petering, OR Spectrum, 32 (2010) 633-661.
4. "Effect of block width and storage yard layout on marine container terminal performance," M.E.H. Petering, Transportation Research E, 45 (2009) 591-610.
5. "Development and simulation analysis of real-time yard crane control systems for seaport container transshipment terminals," M.E.H. Petering, Y. Wu, W. Li, M. Goh, and R. de Souza, OR Spectrum, 31 (2009) 801-835.
6. "Discrete time model and algorithms for container yard crane scheduling," W. Li, Y. Wu, M.E.H. Petering, M. Goh, and R. de Souza, European Journal of Operational Research, 198 (2009) 165-172.
7. "Effect of block length and yard crane deployment systems on overall performance at a seaport container transshipment terminal," M.E.H. Petering and K.G. Murty, Computers and Operations Research, 36 (2009) 1711-1725.
8. "Performance analysis of a multiple vehicle tandem system with inter-vehicle
   buffers and blocking," M.E.H. Petering, J. Seo, and C. Lee, Computers in
   Industry, 58 (2007) 3-11.

JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS:

1. "Discrete event simulation analysis of a reservation-based car sharing system offering one-way journeys,� L. Li and M.E.H. Petering, submitted.
2. "Real-time container storage location assignment at a seaport container transshipment terminal: problem description, control system, simulation model, and experiment 1--expert decking,” M.E.H. Petering, under revision.
3. “Real-time container storage location assignment at a seaport container transshipment terminal part I: control system, simulation model, and experiment 1,” M.E.H. Petering and K.G. Murty, submitted.
4. "An integrated linear model for concurrent pedestrian guiding and transit routing during emergency evacuation in the urban area," M. Heydar, Y. Liu, and M.E.H. Petering, submitted.
5. "Mixed integer programming for capacity analysis of a single track railway line part I: two train types," M. Heydar, M.E.H. Petering, and D. Bergmann, submitted.
6. "Mixed integer programming for cyclic railway timetabling and routing along a single track line," M.E.H. Petering, M. Heydar, and D. Bergmann, submitted.
7. "Real-time container storage location assignment at a seaport container transshipment terminal: dispersion levels and math programming strategies," M.E.H. Petering, K.G. Murty, Y. Wu, W. Li, M. Goh, and R. de Souza, submitted.
8. "Real-time, duration-of-stay-based container storage location assignment and container storage location-dependent assignment of jobs to dual-load yard trucks at a seaport container transshipment terminal," M.E.H. Petering, submitted.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:

1. "Genetic algorithm-based simulation optimization of stacking algorithms for yard cranes to reduce fuel consumption at seaport container transshipment terminals," M. Hussein and M.E.H. Petering, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), Brisbane, Australia, June 2012.
2. "Global retrieval heuristic and genetic algorithm in block relocation problem," M. Hussein and M.E.H. Petering, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC), Orlando, Florida, May 2012.
3. "Parallel versus perpendicular yard layouts for seaport container transshipment terminals: an extensive simulation analysis," M.E.H. Petering, International Trade and Freight Transportation Conference, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, September 2008.
4. "Simulation analysis of yard crane routing systems at a marine container
   transshipment terminal," M.E.H. Petering, Y. Wu, W. Li, M. Goh, K.G. Murty, and
   R. de Souza, International Congress on Logistics and Supply Chain Management Systems, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 2006.
5. "Simulation analysis of algorithms for container storage and yard crane
   scheduling at a container terminal," M.E.H. Petering and K.G. Murty, Second
   International Intelligent Logistics Systems Conference, Brisbane, Australia,
   February 2006.
6. "Performance analysis of a multiple vehicle tandem system with inter-vehicle
   buffers and blocking," M.E.H. Petering, J. Seo, and C. Lee, Fifth International
   Conference on "Analysis of Manufacturing Systems – Production Management,"
   Zakynthos Island, Greece, May 2005.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

1. "Development and simulation analysis of real-time, inter-zone yard crane
   deployment systems for seaport container transshipment terminals," M.E.H.
   Petering and F.B. Talbot, working paper.